Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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13408413 | Land Use Policy | 2020 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
- Legal reforms in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda aim to improve women's security of tenure by formalizing land rights.
- Enhancing women's rights to land are contingent on other legislation and changing social norms.
- Customary tenure regimes, social norms and lack of legal literacy lead to the continued discrimination of women.
- Growing demand for land enhances this discriminization with negative effects for women's livelihoods.
- Theoretically, the findings point to the limited effects of land tenure reforms alone in redressing gender inequality.
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Authors
Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt,